Battle of seven oaks

“Battle of Seven Oaks.” – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 25 Nov. 2015.

The battle of seven oaks was caused because the NWC was upset due to these new settlers coming from Scotland were “part” of the HBC. Since the NWC was angry they decided to steal the HBC pemmican boats and their pemmican that the immigrants were eating. The NWC was trying to starve the immigrants to death. When the pemmican proposal was put into lave it made the NWC mad because they were thinking that the HBC was trying to stop their business and that they were ruling over everyone. The battle only lasted 15 minutes and start when Semple saw a group of NWC. When he stopped them he realized they were stealing the immigrants pemmican. Semple had only 21 men and the NWC had many more resulting in Semple being killed. After the fight many of the immigrants left. Selkirk also started caluring the NWC forts and arresting their people for the “masacre” of his men. The battle also resulted in them starting to talk about who should live in the Northwest and what kind of society should be there.

 

This image is from a neutral perspective showing that there are many more Metis the Semple’s men. It also shows Semple’s men being killed and it looks as if the Metis are the ones who are more experienced in fighting.